CiHic .Laical Society V VOLUME XXVIL HAYS, ELLIS COUNTY, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 25, 1909. NUMBER 45 Leam to do No matter how large or small your business may be, have a Bank account, The farmer or merchant who has a bank account, establishes his credit, has absolute safety for his cash, and pays his bills with checks in a business manner. We offer you safety and . !. . . ft i4 invite you co open an accounnt witn us. 1 Citizens' State laok" j Hays City, I H. W. OSHANT, ; ABSTRACTOR. Bonded in sum of $5000. : . Real Estate, Insurance and Loans Norn V P11Ul:rlD Mrarcei.and other legal notdy UOUCpera promptly executed. 11 11 HAYS. KANSAS. Another Scoop. Again aoes tne old tree rreta win a point for its readers over the other county papers. The big papers are full of the Perry Cook north pole dis cussion, bat much of the news is made up by the reporters. Cook has kept back his official statement until he re ports to his Club in Brooklyn that fur nished the funds for his exploration. Peary is ...

Mayo City F'roo Pro go HAYS CITY, l KAN a. POSTAL CARD FAD. "We common people do use a few postal cards annually. Uncle Sam is Just now considering a contract for 3. 600,000,000 postal cards to be sold during the next four years a matter of 90,000,000 a year. These will cost the government $800,000. and the peo ple will pay $36,000,000 for them, "which also Includes the cost of deliv ering. But this does not comprise the postal card output. We are now an nually buying from Germany alone 700,000,000 postal cards, and also sev eral millions from France and other European nations. But Germany has thus far had a 'cinch on the colored postal card trade, for even American publishers. Instead of doing their own printing and lithographing, have fouzd It more profitable to place orders di rect with German houses. It Is safe to say that Americans buy 2.500.000. 000 postal cards a year 20 to 25 i.or each man, woman and child In the country. More than half of these are of the picture variety. B...

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TSi City Election, The City election making Hays a city of the second class took place on Wed nesday, Sept. 22. 1909, and the ticket nominated at the Citizens public cau cuses was elected being: Major, George Philip, Sr. City Treasurer, C. W. Miller, Jr. School Treasurer, C. M. Wann Police Judcre. M. M. Mulroy Justices, F. E. McLain, J. H. Down ing Constables, Win. Bell, John Troth, Steve Joy, Chaa. Ku p. Councilmen, Chas. Harknesa, W. A. Smith, Philip Jacobs, William Hall, A. P. Stainer. H. W. Oshant. Board of Education, Geo. B. Snyder, H. B. Kohl, J. H. Middlekauff, J B Basgail, John Brumitt, J. H. Spratt. The Mayor will appoint the City riArlr Attomev. Marshal and other reauired officers. These are all tusineea men, have lived here many years and are inter I ested in the city and the schools and hould give us a good, administration the next nineteen months, as they hold office until the Spring election in 1911. The first ward cast only 48 votes, second ward 104 and third ward 56....

0 to 40 acres on r demonstration s at the agricul ng known that tually.. -ornvafl k. reduction is asked for in connectior with rates on repairs for farm im plements, poultry and other farm produce. The " " ' From Overhead -head. " Free Press - Supplement, Sept 25, 1909 Stopping Your Paper. Some time ago, a cranky sort of an individual came into this office and stopped his paper because something in it did not exactly suit his fancy. ' We have frequently met him on the street since then and it is amusing to note the look of surprise on the old fellow's face when he realizes that the editor is still in existence, regardless of the fact that we are no longer get ting his $1 (and making 18 cents a year on his subscription.) Some day, however and it will not be long that old gentleman will turn up his toes. There will be a display of pretty posies and crepe and the neigh bors and friends will follow his lifeless clay out to the Silent City and lay it to rest in the deep, dark tomb. An ob...

fitcita Historical Sor;et7 p N s q y IN J L J i J I J r i T HAYS, ELLIS COUNTY; KANSAS, J OCTOBER 2. 1909. VOLUME XXVIL NUMBER 46 Jr. fx A? T gyf &ff Learn to do Banking. No matter how large or small your business . may be, have a Bank account. The farmer or merchant who has a bank account, establishes his credit, has absolute safety for his cash and pays his bills with checks in a business manner. vrr er r. i tv c uucr you soiciy m1 invite you to open L Citizens' State Hays City, fsr 5- H. W.OSHANT, ABSTRACTOR. Bonded in sum of $5000. : : Real Estate, Insurance and Leans. Mt 0.,U1; 1 Uortrae and ethereal x uuuu) papers promptly executed. HAYS, KANSAS. RoMell Record: lira. Anna Gay went to Kansas City last Saturday to spend a few weeks with her brother. Wtiaon Eche: The Yost Milling Company is running fait time with a capacity of 300 barrels daily. I. M. Yost of Kansas City was here the first of the week. The mill owners with their families held a recep tion at the mill Saturday...

Mayo City lrro6 Prooo MAYS CITY. t : t KANS. Meanwhile the frog in the railroad yards continues to gather them in. How fine the globe looks with the tars and stripes at the top! Little did Spain think chat the Moots had any such war up their sleeves. Some one says that submarine ves sels are safe. They are at least bur glar proof. Vicious dogs should be kept at home so they could practice upon their owners. The aeroplanes may need skypar lors or roosts. They certainly would be misfits In a garage. Our pole discoverers will find the exhilarating cup of glory more to the taste than an Eskimo bill of fare. In her friendly overtures, this coun try desires to inform China that she can go as far as she likes with us. New York and London still cherish horse cars, but the mule car has dis appeared from the face of the earth. The vagaries and queer happenings In Chicago are now fully accounted for. They believe in that city in pie for breakfast. A girl cashier has been poisoned through handl...

c breach ItTney supper ai Next mt I to the E that east those Rt In this tt and two dealers out her chines. cars. under to tr have v ex. SI f T STARTLING NEWS. Old Skinflint Here, boys, what's this you were shouting? "Great swindle 60 victims!" I can see noth ing about it in the paper. Sharp Sam That's the swindle; you are the sixty-first. As St. Louis Lawyers Talk. Cireult Judge Reynolds had an nounced that he would hear juror who had excuses to offer for not serv ing, and a. dozen American citizens crowded up to the bench to tell their troubles. Their excuses were as varied as those who were bidden to the' feast that the Dible tells about. One had an important engagement and another could not hear very well, and another had sickness in his fam ily, and another had duties to per form which nobody else on earth could perform, and another was going on a journey. And so it went. The last man in the line wanted to be let off because he was a German. He might have been excused if he had ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin Company Under a PALACE PAVILION THEATRE 7o people engaged The Iarerest nack of Siberian Blood hounds, More Vau deville features than any other show of its kind on the road. See the Four DEE ESPA'S Crowning Kings of the Air, Watch for the big free STRFET PARADE WILL EXHIBIT AT HAYS Wednesday Evsning Only. October G, Under waterproof Canvas, rain or onine. Mode! District School. Griffith's "Republican" last week says: "wen, we are 10 care a uoaei District School building, notwithstand ing Mr.Freese says there is no appro priation for it A maintenance fund may be drawn on if you can get the state auditor to consent to It." All the week the Free Press has been receiving congratulationsjover its work in bringing about his School and we rejoice that the Regents took this bull by the horns and ordered it built out of the money appropriated for general purposes by the Legislature, the wheat rent money which should have been used for its building, having been used for other...

ountry husbands are better trained i town husbands. Ever see a' be pointed out that the total of alfalfa a greater-percentage of the taxes this J not oe allowec In. 1891 was but little morethanhalf L v-ihju thv diait RasI ctat j peace of the Free Press Supplement, Oct. 2, 1909 The arc lights to be located at the railroad crossings, under the new ordi nance, were placed in position this week. The fast morning train west Friday morning actually stopped here long enough to let three passengers off that norning. Mrs. Livingston and son of Gove O. spent Thursday evening in our city visiting friends. They came dawn in their auto. Judge Nellis walked around town Friday and was surprised and gratified at the splendid improvement our city has made since he lived here manv years ago. Grandpa Schwaller was receiving congratulations Friday morning over a telegram received announcing the ar rival of a fire baby boy at the home of Mrs. Freda Schwaller Trinkle at La Cygne, Kansas. WHITNEY BROS, of...

to interfere with the pigeons." Philadelphia Ring of Chinese "Grafters." Prince Chins, head of.jtheforeign wash goods ' when -new, owe much of JlfiARTFR'SKft Positively their attractiveness to the way they ese Litt 0 i fee J ae, : pnp jrely NewB; news, news! It's enough to rive a man the blues. Noboiy mar ried and nobody dead; nobody broken An arm or a head: nobody come in to talk of the "crap"; no one got boozy nnd started a Bcrap; no one got run in for taking a horn; nobody buried and nobody born. Oh! for a racket, a riot, a fuss! Someone to come in and kick up a mus: someone to stir up the peace-laden air; somebody's comment to give us a scare. Somebody thumped within an inch of his life; -somebody run on witn another man a wile; some one to come in and pay up his dues; anything, anything, just so it's naws. -Colusa (O ) Herald. Salesmen Wanted, We need more salesmen to handle ovr high grade line of Nureery stock. We pay cash each week, pay expenses while canvassing, give exclusi...

". V r CDTEP TW A. tl-$ Historic Sodtty-- CD 1 Li J J J I VOLUME xxvn. HAYS. ELLIS COUNtftf, KANSAS, ' OCTOBER 9, 1909. NUMBER 47. i 11 f' af' Leam to do Banking. No matter how large or small your business may be, have a Bank account. The farmer or merchant who has a bank account, establishes his credit, has absolute safety for his cash and pays his bills with checks in a business manner. We offer you safety and invite you to open an accounnt with us. Cittzeas' State lank 3f- Hayo City, -iZg. ICansao. "IS :ssr H. w. osHANT,;:r ABSTRACTOR. Bonded in sum of $5000. : ; Real Estate, Insurance and Loans. Tf w D.-Ll j Deed, llortsrees, and other leal lOtay I UDllCj paper promptly executed, u n HAYS, KANSAS. McCracken Enterprizo: Miss Alice Mulroy and Miss Mamie Gallagher of Hys Ciiy were here to attend the Sweeney Moran wedding this week. They're Coming t Hays. Last week the Automobile Club of Salina had a day's trip for a sliver cap on an endurance race, like the Gliddenites and about fi...

DAIRY-BRED VEALS BRING HIGHEST PRICES Calf Supply Is Not Increasing: and Consumption Is Evi. dently Surpassing Production in tiie Larger Cities. 2oya City F'roo Rreso TO ry HAD ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF THE MACHINE. UAYS CITY. I KAN 3. Now the suoth pole might as well come in and surrender. SAILS OVER THE HUDSON RIVER WRIGHT MAKES TRIP IXexlco has been giving a UJelike Imitation of Noah's flood. Aeroplanes need something com parable to nonskldding tires. lament of the north pole discov erer: "Nowhere to go but south!" "Why curl up in despair at the sight of a yellow leaf when the swimming Is still good? Paris plans to introduce a flying omnibus. It will make the under ground transportation popular. Why go to the north pole? Medi cine Hat is getting ready to turn out a superior line of goods from its weather factory. The king of Greece wants to give up his job. And there do not ap pear to be many applicants on the waiting list for succession. Now that the duke of the Abruzzl Is planning to...

(7" 3 V i M "TTTn"TTT VI t i i dm . S. VOLUME XXVII. HAYS, ELLIS COUNTY, KANSAS, OCTOBER 9, 1909. NUMBER 47 AYS Thia week oar advertisers are more than liberal wii-h the old time Free Preis, and force ua to arain get oat a supplement, and" we will try and see that the paper goes into the hands of and is read by oar most progressive and intelligent people in the coantv who have money to pend when thev see and hear of food thine. Yu will hear of the paper in every nook an corner of the county who want to keep posted on current events and like its style of diahinjar i it out. We call "a spade a spade atfd an angel an angel". IS NfW Council. Mayor PhPip having returned the members of' the rW Citv Council met this week and organized and now thin is a full fledged city of the Second Class. IL W. Os-hant, a member years ago and Mayor ifor two termB, was elected as President of Council, he hav ing had the practical experience in the needed work. The Mayor named the following as the committe...

The moviug picture show at th. -i Opera House has drawn good auf'iencfS all week and given very pleasing shows. The lady is certainly an artist at the piano and sines expressively for the illustrated songrs, the pictures of which are surely fine. Ghitrch Dedication. Next Wednesday, the 13th will ocfir fhe dedication of the new Cntholic church at Yocemento to which everybody is cordially in vited. The dedication will be according to the rubrics of the Ilr.rr.an Catholic Ponticale at 9 a. m.. continuing until com pleted. Rt. Rev. Bishop John F. Cunningham will officiate as pis'"d by Father Jerome, guard ing of the Victoria Monastery p.rv! Tether Henry, director of t' .- Jlrivs Ollpge. Frther Gran--Wll he the Master of Cere r":iies. Solemn High Mass will 1, -.r.r hv Father Charles, Dean n!' Victoria district assisted 1- Fathers Edward and Bernard, rV-nn rnd sub-deacon. The F -vmon will be by Father n .-m Joseph. Superior of v or. Fnthr Julius delivering rlish Fermon and assist- C :, r:...

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"Much is said nowadays about high taxes, local, state and national. It is improbable that any of these taxes are too high. With the civilization thnt we have anr" that almost everyone de sires and intends to see maintained, taxes are bound to be higher. What is needed is vigilance to Bee and diligence to manage so that none of the incoire from thesa taxes shull b.; wasted cr mispent and that none be used on triv ial matters while greater ones stand in need." Exchange. CoL W. R. Nelson, publisher of that successful newspaper, The Kansas City Star, gave utterance to thi9 truipm: "The newspaper that rdvocates the best things; reflects the highest stan dard of citizenship ard stand for all that is good tgainst all that is bad for ita community, is rot- required to make a place for itself. The pace is there. It only nee s to be filkd." A newspaper that 13 "clean, sane and courageous" will always win, he says. "because the American people are that kind of people." In the fine pentimert th...

State Historical Society -q-T r 7 J V -" ) 1 L J E ATS fc9 LJ volume xxvn. HAYS, ELLIS COUNTY, KANSAS, OCTOBER 16, 1909. NUMBER 48. gs Learn to do No matter how large or small your business may be, have a Bank account, The farmer or merchant who has a bank account, establishes his credit, has absolute safety for his cash and pays his bills with checks in a business manner. . We offer you safety and invite you to open an accounnt with us. Citizens' State Sank 41 'I ft Hays City, The cold snap has made a rash in the sale and putting up of stoves this week. Couldn't get along without them. The papers tell that west and north of us they have had snow, which ac counts for our cold wave. If you want Fire Insurarce that is tratA "all of the time." or if you want a quick loan at a low rate of interest that you can pay off ''any old time" or if you want to visit with us ''part of your time" come in I The J. M. Schaefer Loan & ins. Agcy. Lutheran Ghureh. C. F. Wiest. Pastor. 10:00 a. m. S...

HOG HOUSE ADAPTED TO VARIOUS SECTIONS L2oyo Cityfroo Proso Tins- aOOO22 HAYS CITY, I KAN 8. MARTIAL LAW IS PROCLAIMED AT KEY WEST. Swine Tlirlve Where There Is Good Shelter In Winter and Shade in the Summer-By 7. E. Bridgman. Wages are going up. Here la where all the Idle railroad rolling stock begins to roll. . fierce nonnicnnE .RAGUIG flLOIJG COAST Gap A - or-iuQ r.,. rv, - Since water la so scarce on Mara perhaps they fill the canals with kerosene. The next feat is now to discover a tneans of communication with the nen In Mars. There are sharks oil Atlantic City, though so far as Is known no hotel keepers have takn to the salt sea. If you want to get into the nobil ity keep away from Prussia. To be made a duke you have to pay a tax of $2,400. Santos-Dumont flies with wings con taining only nine square yards of sur face. They will yet be reduced to vest-pocket size. Spanish General Weyler says a pol icy of foresight would have avoided the Catalonlan trouble. lie knows how It was i...

Tin "TT T7 ' JLa- .J-.l l L 4 "3 a. VOLUME xxvn. HAYS, ELLIS COUNTY, KANSAS,- OCTOBER 16. 1909. NUMBER 48 FffiME PRESS Will Philip has added a top to his little auto, and now he and his family can enjoy the com fort of quick and easy riding. For farmers these little autos will prove the blessing of their lives. The roads are good so much of the time and it saves so j much time and work in hitching j up and taking long drives, that these little things, which go so Jl quickly and easily and, with pro per care, cost so generally used. little, will be A letter from our old timer, Samuel Mellison, to one of his many friends' here, tells that they are getting along nicely out in their new home on the Pacific coast, and want to be remember ed to their friends. Good for Sam. Abstracts of Title Before purchasing Real Es tate, either Town or Country, insist upon an Abstract of Ti tie. It costs but a trifle and is a safeguard for the future. Do not be put off by agents who tell you it is not n...